Doll-head.



E. REINHARDT.

DOLL HEAD,

APPLIOATION FILED DEG.9,1913.

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44;, may J a/vv Patented Sept. 29, 1914.

'ERNS'I. REINHARDT, 0F THILKADEIIIHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DOLL-HEAD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 29, 1914.

Application filed December El, 1913. Serial No. 805,586.

.To (ZZZ whom it may concern Beit known that I, Ernsr Rmnrrano'r, a citizen of the United States, residing in Il'iiladelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Doll- Heads, of which the following is a specification.

()ne object of my invention is to so construct a doll head that the eyes of the same may be readily changed when desired.

A further objectgis to provide for the ready changing of both the eyes and hair of the doll whereby, when the eyes are changed,-

the hair may be likewise changed to harnienize with the eyes, and a further object is to provide simple and eflic-ient means whereby the pivoted eyes may be readily locked in position when desired.

These objects I attain in the manner hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of a doll head constructed in accordance with my invention, the wig having been removed; Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section showing the wig applied; Fig. 3 is a rear view, and Fig. 4 is a side view of one of the eyes detached from the head.

In the drawing, 1 represents the hollow shell ofthc head, which maybe made of papier mach, bisque, porcelain, or other material, by preference of material of an indestructible character.

The head has an opening 2 at the top, and distributed throughout the head are various other openings 3, whose purpose is to receive cords or otherfastening devices 4: connected to the foundation 5 of the wig with which the head is provided, whereby one wig can be readily detached and replaced by another when it is desired to change the color of the hair. In the present instance the attaching devices consist of cords passed through the openings 2 and 3 and tied on the outside of the head, as shown in Fig. 2, but any other desired means of attachment may be employed which will permit of the removal of one wig and the application of another in its place.

The eyes 6 are mounted so as to be free to turn in sockets 7 secured to the interior of the head on each side of the same, the eyes being maintained in engagement with the sockets by means of a strut 8 interposed between the eyes, as shown in Fig. 2, the ends of this strut being adapted to suitable recess es 9 (Fig. 1) in the inner sides of the eyes.

Suspended from the eyes 6 is a yoke 10, preferably of resilient wire, this yoke carrylng the weight '11 whereby, when the position of the doll is changed, the eyes are caused to turn in their sockets 7 so as to have the effect of opening or closing, the resilient yoke 10 serving to pressthe eyes apart and seat them in the sockets 7 but permitting the eyes to bemoved toward each other when the strut 8 has been removed so that they can be withdrawn from engagement with the sockets 7 and removed from the head in order to permit eyes of a difii'erent color to be substituted therefor, to accord with the color of the hair when their has been a change of wigs. The weight 11 has oppositely projecting plugs 12 of cork, rubber, or other elastic or semi-elastic material which serve as buiit'ersv to prevent contact of the weight with, the material of which the head is composed, and the weight also has hung thereto a lockinglbarl?) having notches 14 near its free end, said bar normally hanging down inside-the head, as shown by full lines in Fig. 1, but being provided with a flexible cord or other connection 15 terminating in a knob 16 on the outside of the head,

as shown in Fig. 1.

' In the back of the. head is a cruciform slot having a vertical member 17 and a horizontal member 18 intersecting the same, as

shown in Fig. 3. lVhen the bar-.13 is in the position shown by full lines in Fig. 1 it does not interfere with the free swinging of the weight 11 and the opening and closing of the eyes of the doll, but when said bar 13 occupies the position showniby dotted lines in Fig. 1 it prevents the swinging of the weight 11 and thereby retains the eyes 6 always in the open position. In order to shift the bar 13 from the position shown by full lines to that shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1 the lower or free end of the baris raised by-means of the flexible connection 15 until it can be passed through the horizontal member 18 of the slot in the rear of the head, and, when the notched portion of the bar occupies said slot '18 the bar is either raised .or dropped so as to cause it to engage with the vertical member of the slot, which thereby locks the bar to the rear of the head. Secured to the upper portion of each eye 6 is a cap 19, the front edge of which is provided with projecting hairs or threads 20, the cap with itsprojecting hairs swinging with the eye and thus simulating an eyelid and lashes which more downward when the eye swings from the open to the closed position, and upward when the eye swings from the closed to the open position.

I claim:

1. The combination of a doll head having imvardly projecting sockets secured to the opposite sides thereof, eyes seated in said sockets, and a resilient yoke connecting said eyes and retaining them in the sockets but susceptible of contraction so as to permit disengagement of the eyes from the sockets when it is desired to change the eyes.

2. The combination of a doll head having inwardly projecting sockets secured to the opposite sides of the same, eyes seated in said sockets, and a strut interposed between the eyes and servin to maintain them in engagement with the sockets, said strut cing removable from between the eyes when it is desired to move the latter toward one another.

The combination of a doll head having inwardly projecting sockets on opposite sides of the same, eyes fitted to said sockets, adepending resilient yoke connected to said eyes and serving to maintain them in engagement with the sockets, and a weight mounted upon said yoke.

4. The combination of a doll head having a shell with slotted rear portion, swinging eyes, and a depending weight connected thereto, with a locking bar connected to said weight and notched for engagement with the slotted rear portion of the shell.

5. The combination of a doll head hav ing on the inside of the same sockets at the opposite sides thereof, eyes seated in said sockets, and resilient means disposed between the eyes and serving to retain the same in said sockets but contractible so as to permit of their removal therefrom.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ERNST REINI'IARDT.

Witnesses KATE A. BEADLE, HAMILToN D. TURNER. 

